Donovan held a news conference Thursday with Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn and top DCF officials. They determined that DCF social worker John Salter followed DCF protocol when he saw Peighton Geraw shortly before his mother called 911 and he was declared dead on April 4.

Donovan says Salter believed that he was seeing a sleeping baby.

Peighton's mother, 28-year-old Nytosha Laforce, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the death of her son. Her boyfriend, Tyler Chicoine, has admitted lying to a police officer and agreed to a plea deal.